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10-12-2017 12:00 AM

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Industrial-age institutional fields shape the way entrepreneurial organizations have traditionally viewed digital technologies. We report on a study of twenty “born digital” organizations to investigate how they draw on and reproduce different institutional fields as they grow, and how they leverage digital technologies during this growth. Our findings suggest that trajectories of born digital organizations are shaped by the institutional fields that they draw upon. Some follow trajectories consistent with established institutional fields, while others span fields across industrial and digital domains. Depending on their “home filed” or “across field” position, born digital organizations adopt practices to enhance their legitimacy seeking practices or design capital building practices.

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Industrial-age institutional fields shape the way entrepreneurial organizations have traditionally viewed digital technologies. We report on a study of twenty “born digital” organizations to investigate how they draw on and reproduce different institutional fields as they grow, and how they leverage digital technologies during this growth. Our findings suggest that trajectories of born digital organizations are shaped by the institutional fields that they draw upon. Some follow trajectories consistent with established institutional fields, while others span fields across industrial and digital domains. Depending on their “home filed” or “across field” position, born digital organizations adopt practices to enhance their legitimacy seeking practices or design capital building practices.